class="_blank" on Block Social...

[DARKF3D3]

I notice that the link in the bock social tpl file has a class="_blank"... It is correct?

I know target="_blank" for opening link on a new page/tab, but i never see a class with _blank attribute.

 

 

Here's the code:

<div id="social_block">
	<h4 class="title_block">{l s='Follow us' mod='blocksocial'}</h4>
	<ul>
		{if $facebook_url != ''}<li class="facebook"><a class="_blank" href="{$facebook_url|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{l s='Facebook' mod='blocksocial'}</a></li>{/if}
		{if $twitter_url != ''}<li class="twitter"><a class="_blank" href="{$twitter_url|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{l s='Twitter' mod='blocksocial'}</a></li>{/if}
		{if $rss_url != ''}<li class="rss"><a class="_blank" href="{$rss_url|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{l s='RSS' mod='blocksocial'}</a></li>{/if}
		{if $youtube_url != ''}<li class="youtube"><a class="_blank" href="{$youtube_url|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{l s='YouTube' mod='blocksocial'}</a></li>{/if}
		{if $google_plus_url != ''}<li class="google_plus"><a class="_blank" href="{$google_plus_url|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{l s='Google+' mod='blocksocial'}</a></li>{/if}
		{if $pinterest_url != ''}<li class="pinterest"><a class="_blank" href="{$pinterest_url|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{l s='Pinterest' mod='blocksocial'}</a></li>{/if}
		{if $vimeo_url != ''}<li class="vimeo"><a href="{$vimeo_url|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{l s='Vimeo' mod='blocksocial'}</a></li>{/if}
	</ul>
</div>

[vekia]

you've got right 

im going to ask on forge why there is _blank as a class not a target

perhaps there is some js script behind that, but i don't think so

[DARKF3D3]

Yes, I see that because I wanted to open the social in a new tab. 

 

So what do you think it's best? I can edit them to target="_blank" or I don't touch them to be sure to not create problems and I also add target="_blank"?

[vekia]

i changed each instance of class="_blank" to target="_blank" and everything is fine.

[DARKF3D3]

Ok, I'll do in that way.

 

Thanks for the help vekia!

[vekia]

hello

both class=blank and target=blank are proper,

ps uses tools.js file to open blocks with class=blank to open in new window (with js)